SNIPPET: "New York City is the center of a public uproar as Internet blogger Pamela Gellar rises with an anti-jihad ad campaign."

SNIPPET: "Gellar and her group are protesting the Jihad, which in definition is the religious duty of Muslims.

According to the Dictionary of Islam, jihad is defined as A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad . . . enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.

The literal meaning of jihad, according to the British Broadcasting Network, is struggle or effort, and it means much more than holy war.

The word jihad describes three different struggles, including a believers internal struggle to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible, the struggle to build a good Muslim society and Holy war  the struggle to defend Islam, with force if necessary My politically incorrect nature wants to applaud the American Freedom Defense group for not softening the blow in their anti-jihad campaign."

SNIPPET: "What some refuse to see is the imminent danger that lingers with current events.

Our desires are honorable  to feel carefree and live under the laws of peace and hope  but we cannot act obliviously when real harm is knocking at our door.

SNIPPET: “The Jihad information media have an important role in Jihad itself.”

SNIPPET: “Many people doubt the jihad media, thinking that the jihad media have no influence on the enemy’s moves.”

SNIPPET: “The existence of i’lam (information media) and especially the jihadi i’lam can never stop until the Judgment Day. The position of the media becomes very important as a broadcasting and manhaj-raising tool in making the program of the da’i or jama’ah successful.”

SNIPPET: “I have emphasized what I am saying in the previous paragraph, i.e. the internet is not the only tool that we have in the arena of jihadi i’lam, even though it is the most quick and effective means. There are means other than the internet, though traditional it is able to meet the needs and bear good results while waiting for the subsequent displacement of many of the obstacles. If indeed obstacles are very disturbing, then we could go back using the internet as a tool that is easily operated.”

SNIPPET: “Looking away, not caring, or hoping for the best are not viable options in fighting terrorism (in general) and the global jihad (specifically). Terrorism must be fought head on 24/7 and preventing terrorism is far better than just reacting to one terror-related event after another.” -Cindy (July 1, 2011)

SNIPPET: “”You must understand that the internet is the primary communication tool/propaganda tool/recruiting tool/fund raising tool for the global jihad. Once you understand that; then you should not be surprised at all that the jihad is in the same country you reside in.” -Cindy (July 10, 2007)

Jihadis Online: A Few Thoughts
Society For Internet Research ^ | JULY 5, 2011 | S.O.F.I.R.
Posted on July 24, 2012 3:24:56 AM PDT by Cindy

SNIPPET: I. When considering the matter of jihadis online, remember that most of what we think we know is based on analyses of the comments made by an handful of vocal activists. The vast majority of jihadis online, be they on forums or social networking sites[i], say nothing. Skillful translations and insightful analyses by definition tell us little about this potentially lethal yet silent majority.

SNIPPET: Adverts have appeared on several jihadist web forums, offering to recruit and train potential suicide bombers.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is offering training for suicide bombers to target the US, Israel and France.

The advertisements ask for volunteers to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience and proposed targets, and were posted on a variety of jihadist forums, including Al-Fidaa, Shmoukh al-Islam and Honein.

SNIPPET: WASHINGTON, April 2 (UPI)  A blackout of al-Qaidas main Web sites is in its 11th day, and officials think the forums may have been brought down in a cyberattack.

While no one has claimed credit for disabling the sites...

SNIPPET: The loss of information typically confuses and frustrates the readers of the Web sites.

It leaves the rank-and-file to guess which messages and which messengers are genuine al-Qaida, and provides undercover operators with new opportunities to disrupt the movement, said A. Aaron Weisburd, senior fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute.

SNIPPET: While these various elements of the jihadist network are distinct, the Internet brings them together, especially at the grassroots level. Videos, websites and online magazines indoctrinate aspiring militants in the jihadist ideology and provide a forum for like-minded individuals and groups.
1 posted on January 23, 2012 2:13:11 PM PST by Cindy

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Securitys Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation. The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building.

SNIPPET: In July, the British government warned that Al Qaedas exploitation of social networking websites is on the rise.

SNIPPET: The massive and multifarious network of websites and social media has presented a challenge to authorities in trying to combat it. Additionally, civil liberty concerns have conflicted with government efforts to spy on communications.

Reducing terrorist activity on social media sites has been particularly difficult because users have adopted new forms of communication to conform with the new formats. Many Arabic speakers on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other sites use Arabizi, a form of colloquial Arabic written in the Latin alphabet and numbers. This allows the use of a standard English-language keyboard for typing messages. There exists, however, no standard version of Arabizi. It varies from country to country, even among groups within countries and is affected by differences in dialect.

SNIPPET: Note: PWP stands for PassWord-Protected, meaning that a login is required to view - let alone participate in - discussions. Since some in the audience dont understand the significance of this, allow me to spell it out: if only members can read the forum, then anyone observed reading the forum is a member. They have zero deniability (they couldnt have accidentally wandered into the site), and they had to make the effort to join (an expression of intent).

While the goal here is to present a range of sites, the fact is that the jihadis themselves have largely coalesced at Shmukh and Ansar Arabic.

SNIPPET: Assembled with the help of my dear brothers in Fateh al-Islam (and their minders in the Syrian intelligence service). The [PWP] notation indicates the site is password protected. Theres nothing worse than the mournful wailing of analysts, graduate students, and reporters who find themselves locked out of their favorite forum. Join early, join often, save important discussions as you find them, try not to say anything too embarrassing, and if youre a civilian, make some effort to let your friendly neighborhood secret police know that youre a good guy, not a bad guy, so they dont have to waste time and money investigating you. Forums are not just websites, they are battlefields, and spectators are not particularly welcome by any of the combatants.

SNIPPET: Given that the adminstrators of the al-Faloja forum are already convinced that they have been somehow infiltrated or compromised, there seems little harm done in providing a glimpse of the current geographic distribution of the non-proxy using readers of the site.

SNIPPET: “The 28-year-old Lewthwaite has been missing for nearly a year but revealed in an online that she is tired of living on the run and is “breathing Jihad.”

She writes: “I’d rather be receiving my martyrdom, think I’ll get ready... and buy a vest.”

She posted the poem, entitled “Maybe Paradise Tomorrow,” using a Twitter account. In the poem she pays tribute to Aboud Rogo Mohammed, the former leader of Al-Qaeda-linked terror faction Al-Shabaab, killed last week in a Kenya drive-by shooting, and she vows to join him in “Jannah” (Islamic paradise).”

According to the Sunday Mirror, she may be hiding out with five terrorists in Central Kenya. The CIA, Kenyan police and Scotland Yard are on the hunt for the woman from Northern Ireland who may have turned to Islam at the age of 15 because of her parents’ separation.”

SNIPPET: “It was the first of its kind for the Philippines, triggering a wave of videos, letters and audio messages from Filipino jihadists which were promoted on al-Qaeda linked sites and jihadist websites like Shumukh al-Islam and Ansar al-Mujahideen English Forum (AMEF).

“I have no expectation that any American president would order the destruction of Mecca, even if American cities had been destroyed with nuclear bombs sent from a Muslim country with a clear return address.”

The moral of the story is, don’t count on the US to straighten matters out in this world.

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posted on 10/01/2012 3:15:52 PM PDT
by 353FMG
(The US Constitution is only as effective as those who enforce it.)

Let's look at what one of the Islamic World's "heroes" had to say about this subject: Ayatollah Khomeini:

Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled or incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of [other] countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.

. . . But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. . . . Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war.

Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you!

Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword!

People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors!

There are hundreds of other [Qur'anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight.

Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.

Who are you going to believe, the Hamas Terrorist-supporting CAIR or the Jihadist-supporting, Lame Stream Media or this (former) Mad Mullah, and dozens of other such statements and written words of the "Profit" in the Quran and Hadiths ?

So let me get this straight. We are compelled to live with a lethal desease because our Contitution stipulates that even something that will kill us has the right of protection.

I can just imagine future historians discussing the brief existence of the USA. It goes like this:

A: Notice how advanced that society was? They were certainly different from the rest of the world.
B: Right.
A: But also notice that they were destroyed from within because they insisted on a set of rules based on a sense of fair play.
B: Right. They preferred total destruction over survival.
A: You can say what you want about these Americans, but they heroically hanged onto their 1st Amendment principles up untill the time that it killed them.
B: Right, but also notice that those who took over from them rid themselves of that Constitution. So what good was that 1st Amendment?

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posted on 10/02/2012 10:08:13 AM PDT
by 353FMG
(The US Constitution is only as effective as those who enforce it.)

SNIPPET: “A group of lawmakers has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to order Twitter to remove from the micro-blogging site the accounts of multiple U.S.-designated terrorist groupsand has warned that Twitters failure to do so could be a violation of U.S. law.

Twitter hosts scores of Muslim clerics and organizations, including al Qaeda, designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as terrorists. The groups use the micro-blogging site to recruit extremists and distribute radical materials, according to the lawmakers, who petitioned FBI Director Robert Mueller to crack down on these illegal virtual activities.”
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“U.S. Investigating White House Cyber Attack
Officials: President Obama was not informed at the time the White House Military Office hack was discovered”

BY: Bill Gertz
October 2, 2012 5:45 pm

SNIPPET: “Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, called on the president to take steps to punish China for the cyber attack.”

SNIPPET: “U.S. intelligence agencies believe China has a force of about 2,000 people engaged in cyber warfare efforts, including digital espionage designed to obtain secrets and clandestine efforts to plant sleep agent software inside systems that can be used to attack or sabotage computer networks in a crisis or wartime.”

After sufficient national lip-service is paid to 1A niceties, barring some kinda miracle, and regardless preemptive goobermint action or lack thereof, it'll eventually come down to the personal/family decision to kill or be killed.

In my bumbling way what I'm trying to say to you is that yes, PC cowardice has allowed the threat of the savage rag bastards to become palpable and mentally weighing. But whether, when all the yakking is done and the maggots are raging up your street, fear of them leads to suicide or one's unopposed murder is something that will be entirely in your hands.

None of that is meant to discount the individual powerlessness of a situation like 9-11 or the recent travesty in Bhengazi. Without a few divisions and a couple squadrons of Raptors at my command, there's not a lot/anything I can do about the muzz threat beyond my own locale. That IS 'our' government's job to deal with, and one of the overwhelmingly critical reasons for getting that marxist ENEMY out of the WhiteHut.

“Terrorism and the Internet: the the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Internet Network”

(September 30, 2012)

SNIPPET: “1. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a relatively small terrorist organization, second in importance only to Hamas. It follows a radical Islamist ideology and is massively supported by Iran.”

“The Internet in the service of terrorist organizations: the Palestinian Islamic Jihads Internet network and the service providers by which the organization is supported (updated to September 18, 2007).”

SNIPPET: “The US State Department announced today that it has amended its terrorist designations of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) “to include the new alias, Ansar al Sharia (AAS).”

AAS “was established to attract potential followers to sharia rule in areas under the control of AQAP,” according to the State Department. “However, AAS is simply AQAP’s effort to rebrand itself, with the aim of manipulating people to join AQAP’s terrorist cause.”

AAS “has publicly stated that the particular brand of sharia they hope to implement is the same as that espoused by the Afghan Taliban and the Islamic State of Iraq, a militant umbrella group...that includes” al Qaeda in Iraq.

AAS has “has taken responsibility for multiple attacks against Yemeni forces.” In March 2012, AAS executed a “series of attacks and armed assaults” in southern Yemen that “killed 100 people, many of whom were Yemeni soldiers.” An AAS suicide bombing in May 2012 “killed more than 100 Yemeni soldiers” during a parade.

The United Nations has also added AAS to its list of designated terrorist organizations.

The emir of AAS is Nasir al Wuhayshi, Osama bin Laden’s longtime aide-de-camp in Afghanistan. Wuhayshi is also the emir of AQAP.”

SNIPPET: “An unclassified report published in August highlights al Qaeda’s strategy for building a fully operational network in Libya. The report (”Al Qaeda in Libya: A Profile”) was prepared by the federal research division of the Library of Congress (LOC) under an agreement with the Defense Department’s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office.

Al Qaeda’s senior leadership (AQSL) in Pakistan has overseen the effort. AQSL “issued strategic guidance to followers in Libya and elsewhere to take advantage of the Libyan rebellion,” the report reads. AQSL ordered its followers to “gather weapons,” “establish training camps,” “build a network in secret,” “establish an Islamic state,” and “institute sharia” law in Libya.

Each part of this strategy is being implemented, and al Qaeda’s plan has advanced to the final stages. The three conceptual phases of an al Qaeda affiliate’s development are outlined in a chart prepared by the US military and shown here.”

SNIPPET: “In recent years Taliban militants have been using the micro-blogging service Twitter to spread their message against the U.S. Following are some of the key Taliban accounts active on Twitter. Some Twitter accounts established in the names of Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri are not listed here, as they do not appear to be authentic.”

NAFIS in a nutshell - Opinion>A devout Muslim man who was comfortable on the internet and who was interested in jihad against America.>He came to America to commit his jihad.>He got caught up in a sting operation.>He was arrested.

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